Holy Father

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For once, I am excited about TIME magazine’s Person of the Year. They’ve selected Pope Francis, after giving people a scare by having Miley Cyrus (poor lost soul) on their short list. And though the article starts out sounding a bit like the usual media wishes that the pope might change doctrine (ain’t never gonna…

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I was unhappy to see this tweet yesterday: Even though he’s a puppet, he knows how to Prank! Watch #Pranksgiving on Disney XD every Monday Night in Nov at 8:30 pic.twitter.com/ahWp7i34Jz — Kenneth Faried (@KennethFaried35) November 18, 2013 Really, Disney? Thanksgiving means playing pranks? (Or badly scripting fake ones, even?) The only connection here is…

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Stream of consciousness on Twitter earlier, in response to the FREAKING OUT some hard-core Righties have with what the pope said about workers on the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker: The papacy is one office, not many men with their own ideas. What one pope teaches about doctrine, all popes teach about doctrine. The…

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This video is from last year, but we can still pray for the Holy Father. By the way, don’t forget to pray the novena for our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. The Knights of Columbus have the prayer here, and a printable PDF (six to a sheet) here. Even if you haven’t prayed so far,…

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What a lovely Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral! I was in tears many times, and the sight of the lovely young sisters filling the church with our wonderful priests and deacons was just beautiful! (Forgive the commericial at first, but here is a video of a portion of the Holy Father’s homily.) http://www.necn.com/video/3/7443 The only…

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Today marks the third year since the Holy Spirit guided the conclave to choose Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to be our papa, Pope Benedict XVI. My posts from that week are here. Posts about the conclave and election begin with the second-from-bottom item. And, when the pope was selected, I was blogging live. 🙂 Please browse…